sand bed

Hi all, about 90 days into the hobby, and the tanks life. Having fun with the Dino’s takeover; approaching it with over feeding and Microbacter7 to help combat. Ordered Dr. Tims solution to help as well. However, this white/moldy looking stuff as started to appear the morning after a water...

Hello everyone. This is live sand from an old aquarium. Should I use this sand as a base and then top with new white sand. Whatis your Suggestion

I'm planning my 235 gallon tank and I'd really like to keep a jawfish. Researching them it looks like they need a significant sand bed. I'm planning on crushed coral this time around at about 1.5". I bought 12 -12" arches. If I make a circle out of them or a retaining wall and plug the holes I...

Hello! I was wondering if anyone could help me out with a small issue with algae. For context: I’ve had this 20 gallon water box for almost 5 months now, everything was going perfectly and smooth and a month ago. I was talking to my LFS and with some advice I decided to change change the...

Hey hey! So I've got a 90litre. Set it up currently letting the rock cycle. The sand I got caribsea pink fiji. I really want a pistol shrimp but this sand LOOKS too fine! It's created little mini sand storms in my tank, I haven't yet got a wavemakers. sand would you recommend?? Perfect for...

Help! I brought home my pygmy waspfish a couple hours ago, acclimated him, and put him into the tank where he ran around a bit at first, and then laid down in the corner and half way buried himself in the sand. I work at the lfs he’s from and I’ve been target feeding him and building trust for...

Hi everybody, I’m setting up my new 75G tank. I have inserted the sand, I chose the Carib Sea Ocean Direct Oolite, I like it very much, however the grains are very thin and they move everywhere with the flow of the pumps. Also when the sand goes on the corals it remains on them and it is...

I made a rookie mistake and setup my aquascape on top of the sand bed. It's nestled down slightly, but sits on top of the sand bed. The tanks been up and running for 6 months removing the rock work doesn't sound like a good idea. I've got some Cyano growing in the sand bed and I was looking at...

It's official. He's as much of an addict as I am now. This is the start of my son's 32g BioCube that we just picked up this weekend. We added about 30lbs of (live) sand/crushed coral/shells and even some seaweed/other random life, on Sunday. It's settled down nicely. He's super excited...

What are these tiny red slug looking worms. There are tons of them in the sand. Image was taken with handheld micro scope you cant really see them with the naked eye they just look like red specs all over the sand. Tank is about 2 months old

My lfs just stocked a bunch of 1" engineer goby which are rare and my dream(since I don't live in us so no Hawaiian golden dwarf eels) I'm now wondering do such small babies burrow much since I'm going to raise them in my 35gal with shallow 1" sand bed before moving to my large tank (70gal)...

Hello guys what is your opinion about this sand ?

Hi all, For folks that keep coral on the sand bed, particularly LPS - how do you go about cleaning your sand bed? Just be very careful around them?

So I've been scouring the internet for answers, and found lots of pictures of people's tanks with seemingly the same problem, but everyone says it's something else. So I'm hoping I can post my specific situation and someone will know what's going on. So I've had diatoms, my rocks were golden...

5yo 20g max nano from facebook marketplace, some cyano and minimal sand. Close-up pic of some gunk, an alarming-looking worm, and a goby Not much sand at bottom (definitely less than 0.5”, some bare spots). Previous owner mentioned I may want to take more out. My current plan is to remove...

Curious if anyone can ID the problem with my sand. I have a 55 gal tank with some fish and mostly softies (Duncan, torch, fuzzy mushroom, zoas, rock flower anemone, etc). I also have snails, hermit crabs, a signal goby (named Traffic ), a conch, a sea hare, and a sand shifting starfish, but my...

I have been trying to provide greater flow across my sand however, the sand keeps getting dusted up. So I was thinking maybe I could place something more course on top to keep it in place. Thoughts?

Hello all, I have a 10g fairly new tank. Worry not everything is cycled of course but I started noticing orange patches here and there on my sand. All levels are within normal ranges so I have no idea what this might be, but then again I still consider myself a beginner and I don’t know much...

Hey guys, I am getting back into the hobby again and have a 45 gallon tank. The dimensions are 2ft high, 1ft depth, and 3ft long. I am going to be putting this in a wall near my kitchen and am very excited to get this started. I have some knowledge on salt water tanks. Not an expert by any...

Hello, I don’t know how exactly all started but I have high ammonia for over 3 weeks now. I’m adding api ammonia lock, prime, api quick start and stability.I did water change 4 times and ammonia is still the same. I had star fish that my puffer was picking all the time and die and one small...

Hey guys, I’m back to share my turmoil and maybe get some support again from you all. My tank was doing great after my last post regarding treating my tank with copper and raising salinity. I had done a few water changes after my copper treatment and copper was down low to a 0.69 ppm. All the...

Hi all, I purchased a dragon soul favia ~1 week ago and is currently sitting on my sandbed. From what I could tell online, they do well on the sand and are generally happy. Unfortunately, I have a pink spotted goby who seems to enjoy dropping sand into the polyps. I couldn’t find much online...

Hi, I have a 55 gallon tank that Im planning to turn into a reef tank. I bought 70 pounds of sand and this is what my tank looks like after 35 pounds of sand I feel like if I add the other 35 pounds of sand, it'll be too much, how much more should I add or is this good enough?

Hi Everyone, I am booting up my second tank. I know everyone is pro for bare bottom when keeping sps tanks, however I cannot live without wrasses especially leopards. So this begs me to ask my fellow reefers what sand are you using / recommend? I’ve been looking at the Af Bio Sand, and special...

Hi all, I'm about to start aquascaping my tank. Should I put a fine layer of sand down first or is it best to put the rock directly on the glass? I plan on having 3.5"-4" of sand when done but thinking of a 1/4" or less layer of sand before placing the rock. I plan on having sand sifters in...